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Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Victoria Bynum
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“The Free State of Jones” on Film: A Q&A with Victoria Bynum The Society of Civil War Historians 2016-03-01 Megan Kate Nelson This May, STX Entertainment will release the film Free State of Jones, which tells the story of the Knight Company and the Jones County rebellion, a Civil War history first told by Victoria…
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The Free State of Jones Movie to be released May 13, 2016 Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-01-05 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos The Free State of Jones Movie poster Victoria E. Bynum is author of the book The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest…
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From Legend to History to Film: “The Free State of Jones” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2015-11-17 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos The Free State of Jones, the movie Between November 19–22, 2015, the Smithsonian Institute and National Endowment of the Humanities will host a history film…
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Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2015-10-11 Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos As we await the release of The Free State of Jones, I thought it might be fun to visit an earlier movie similarly inspired…
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Victoria Bynum to speak on the “Free State of Jones” at the Lauren Rogers Museum “Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection” (2015-09-06 through 2015-11-15) Lauren Rogers Museum of Art 565 N. Fifth Avenue Laurel, Mississippi 39440 2015-09-10, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I’m…
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Rag Radio 2015-07-03 – Historian Victoria Bynum on Southern History, Racial Violence & the Confederate Flag Rag Radio: Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting-edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the Sixties underground press. KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin Texas Friday, 2015-07-03, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 CDT) Thorne Dreyer, Host Victoria Bynum, Emeritus Professor of…
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The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…
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“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800
“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800 Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2013-08-01 The following guest essay by Wayne K. Driver expands upon my own research on the Morris Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. Vikki Bynum, Moderator By Wayne K. Driver Throughout my years of…
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Mississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts The Jackson Sun 2013-07-04 Laura Tillman, Associated Press SOSO, MISS. — One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from fiction. Newton Knight, a white farmer from central Mississippi’s…
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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator…